"Turkey day" is all year round for Minnesotans who farm the bird

Thanksgiving is a big day for the farmers who raise the centerpiece of Americans' dinner tables on the last Thursday of ...
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Minnesota turkey farmers say expanded rural broadband could help combat bird flu

KENSINGTON, Minnesota — Just over 5 miles from where folklore has long claimed Vikings scribbled Scandinavian etchings on a runestone, Erica Sawatzke surveys thousands of chirping baby birds in her ...
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Michelle Fischbach outraised Kensington opponent in 2023

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Steve Boyd, the congressional hopeful from the Kensington area, has raised $24,534 for his campaign to unseat incumbent Michelle Fischbach as the Republican nominee for Congress.
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After bird flu wiped out her farm, a 6th-generation farmer found a way forward

KENSINGTON, Minnesota — Erica Sawatzke remembers it was the day before Thanksgiving in 2023 when she noticed the family farm's turkeys were sick. By Thanksgiving night, they were testing the flock for ...